[Publicity] Mirage 2.0: a recap of the new features

[Anil Madhavapeddy <anil@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I just put up a recap of the recent Mirage 2.0 blogging efforts on the site:

http://openmirage.org/blog/announcing-mirage-20-release

Just wanted to say a big 'thank you!' to Amir for coordinating all of this so 
well, and to Thomas Gazagnaire, David Scott, Jon Ludlam, Hannes Mehnert, David 
Kaloper, Mindy Preston, Thomas Leonard, and Jeremy Yallop for taking the 
trouble to write all the excellent posts and great feedback on writing from the 
OCaml Labs team (particular props to Daniel Buenzli, who gave extensive 
feedback on a number of posts).  Lars Kurth and Sarah Conway from the  
Xen/Linux Foundation have been incredibly helpful in putting the release 
together as well!  The upstream Xen platform team has also been very responsive 
in reviewing our code contributions to MiniOS ARM, so thank you for helping us 
improve that aspect of Mirage so much with your comments.

You may be wondering why there isn't a `mirage-2.0` package up in OPAM.  The 
reason is that the library releases that comprise Mirage 2.0 are staggered, and 
have actually been steadily released over the last few months, and will 
continue to be cut into OPAM as they mature (particularly the ARM support).  So 
you can get on with using the features now, and the precise version number of 
the main Mirage CLI tool isn't that important.

Two areas that particularly need feedback are the ARM support [1], and 
applications that use the Irmin datastore.  I'll be porting my website over to 
run off both when I get back from OSCON next week and will report back on how 
that goes!  I quite like the idea of serving www.openmirage.org as a 
load-balanced cluster of Xen/ARM unikernels running across our home networks on 
a Beowulf cluster of Cubietrucks :-)

[1] Getting started with Xen/ARM has never been simpler: just download the 
prebuilt images linked from the README in 
https://github.com/mirage/xen-arm-builder for your Cubieboard2/Cubietruck 
(which costs about 40 quid or so).

best,
Anil
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